Almost every application needs to access a database, and this book teaches all the fundamentals needed to develop professional database applications. Beginning VB 2008 Databases is for every VB programmer. It assumes no prior database experience and teaches, always through hands-on examples, how to create and use relational databases with the standard database language SQL and how to access them with VB.

This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure necessary tools. It presents all essential SQL query and update concepts and syntax, so readers don't need prior familiarity with relational databases or SQL. In addition, the book describes how to use ADO.NET transactions, exceptions, and events. It also covers ADO.NET features for handling XML, text, and binary data within a VB 2005 context.

Code-heavy and full of practical detail, it has been fully revised and upgraded for .NET 2.0 and offers the best contemporary practice in this core programming area.